The city you live in could be making you, your family, and your friends more unconsciously racist. Or, your city might make you less racist. It depends on how populous, diverse, and segregated your city is, according to a ...
Social Sciences
Feb 6, 2024
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Google on Wednesday began letting members of its online social network get search page reminders about the birthdays of friends.
Internet
Aug 29, 2012
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When an earthquake hits, it makes more than just seismic waves. Extreme events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and terrorist attacks also produce waves of immediate online social interactions, in the form of Tweets, that offer ...
Social Sciences
Oct 31, 2014
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The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more election cycles rife with misinformation under their belts, social media companies have experience identifying ...
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2022
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Social media has become a vital channel for terrorist groups to share news and seduce new members. The recent, notable successes of ISIS in the U.S. and Europe have demonstrated that terror groups can successfully use this ...
Social Sciences
Jul 7, 2015
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Climate change is a topic that is debated, doubted and covered by news outlets across the world. Luis Hestres, in the Department of Communication at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), is researching the evolution ...
Environment
Nov 20, 2017
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Researchers from Aston University have found that the use of swear words in Britain have declined by more than a quarter since the 1990s. Dr. Robbie Love, based in the College of Business and Social Sciences, looked at how ...
Social Sciences
Aug 23, 2021
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Whether teaching about the practices and systems that led to high rates of diabetes in Black communities or discussions about the Flint water crisis, Black female science teachers are finding ways to incorporate anti-racist ...
Social Sciences
Nov 7, 2023
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What do people want when they set out to experience the world around them in coastal areas? Is it amusement parks with water slides and water skiing? Or do they value nature 'on the rocks' like in marine protected areas, ...
Ecology
Aug 20, 2021
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Fewer children who attend regular formal centre- and family-based child care at 1.5 years and 3 years of age were late talkers compared with children who are looked after at home by a parent, child-carer or in an outdoor ...
Social Sciences
Jan 5, 2011
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